Tel Aviv not only did it return to calm this Wednesday after the tormented night of Tuesday when the regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran fired almost two hundred missiles against the entire Jewish territory in the midst of the new war in the Middle East that has been escalating since the Hamas massacre in Israeli territory on October 7 of last year.
The mythical Israeli multicultural city with the greatest Bauhaus architecture known and vegetation that accentuates its Mediterranean air is surprising for the tranquility of its streets if you consider that yesterday it was under complete Persian attack. This Wednesday was the first of Rosh Hashanah, the New Year celebrated by Jews in all parts of the world, with which businesses were closed, the holiday rhythm was complete and life took place in the homes, and at family dinners. .
But there is something else: as young Mila told Clarín – in the middle of her job as a receptionist -, In Israel there is enormous confidence in the anti-aircraft system that stops missile attacks. On Tuesday there was only one death from the rain of Persian fire, a young Palestinian who was hit by the remains of a rocket.
And above all in Tel Aviv, Mila will say, there is “zero stress with that,” but she and her friends are very afraid of new terrorist attacks resurfacing, like the savage attack on Tuesday night, where two terrorists began shooting with modern weapons in a train station on Jerusalem Street. Eight people died inside and outside the cars, several of them very young.
Natasha Niebieskikwiat recorded the movement at the air terminal this Wednesday.
“With missiles you go to shelters, but with terrorists you never know where and when they can attack you. “That’s scary,” he told this newspaper.
Meanwhile, Clarín was also able to contact the economist Julio Goldestein, a close friend of President Javier Milei, and who, in fact, introduced him to the Argentine ambassador here, Rabbi Axel Wahnish. “Today is very good here, although the situation is tense. Most of them are mobilized but today I saw normal and calm movement, from Israel. People here are going home, the roads are full,” he said despite the fact that bad news arrived about the Israeli ground invasion of Lebanon since the first seven soldiers from this country died.
Clarín was able to enter Tel Aviv after the Ben Gurion airport was reopened after remaining closed for a few hours on Tuesday night when it received a barrage of missiles, and amid mutual threats of retaliation. The Persians fired their wave of missiles, which were mostly intercepted and destroyed by the powerful Israeli air defense to avenge the death of Hassan Nasrallah and other Hezbollah leaders in Lebanon on the orders of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Meanwhile, the Israeli premier said that he would avenge the wave of missiles – the second in the year from Tehran to this country – and everyone speculates that the Jewish revenge will take place after the New Year holidays.
“Iran is going to be under fire, we just have to wait. “We are going to win,” Zion told this newspaper.who drives a van that carries a group of journalists and foreign policy specialists invited to this country by the Fuente Latina organization within the framework of the anniversary of the Hamas massacre that will take place on Monday the 7th.
The first impression of arriving in an Israel at war is that on the one hand, and as authorities told Clarín, the number of young people who came on El Al flight 396 from Madrid to Tel Aviv is because the majority are reservists called to the duty, and they were also happy to do it.
Secondly, as the El Al pilot reported, the plane changed its landing route for exceptional reasons given the risk of attack and entered the city from the east.
And later, when you enter the airport lounges, the call to Hamas for the return of the hostages they took on October 7, 2023 draws your attention. They killed 1,200 people in just hours and took 250. On the walk where you can see the photos of those who are still in captivity in Gaza and whose whereabouts are unknown, the Argentine Israeli baby, Kfir Bibas, is seen being taken with his entire family: his father, his mother, and his little brother Ariel.
Late at night in Tel Aviv, known for its music, colors and people on the street, this Wednesday of Rosh Hashanah the silence of the streets was very notable.